Step (2017)

This is at heart looking at ways out of poverty.  Everyone on this high school step team comes from income challenged families, and the majority of them will be the first in their family to go to college.  Their lives as students is one thing, but their experience as a step team is another way for them to express who they are.  The two extremes are Cori, who is an excellent student focused on getting a full ride scholarship to an outstanding school.  Her parents are 100% supportive of her, and she is both ambitious and focused.  Step is a way to get out of her more shy shell and express herself.  The other end of the spectrum is Blessin.  She is beautiful and talented and intense on the dance floor, but she really struggles with focus in the classroom.  He mother also struggles, but with depression rather than academics, and she isn't quite as committed to Blessin's success as her teachers and counselors are.  The two of them come out at different places at the end of high school, and then we get to have a little bit of a peak at what lies ahead for them.  Great documentary.